Chris Duesing is the Cofounder and CEO of Exchangery, a commodities exchange platform as a service company. Chris has over 10 years of experience in software and technical services with a specialization in high throughput, distributed applications in the financial and retail industries. Most recently as the Director of Application Development for the Chicago Climate Exchange, Chris has spent the last 6 years focusing on entrepreneurship and developing new businesses. Chris is active in the Chicago tech community where he is an organizer of the Chicago Erlang Users group and as a mentor for ScaleWell.